"We made a decision really early on, before the Parkinson's diagnosis, that we'd move back East," Fox told Parade. "We'd just bought a house in Bel Air [Los Angeles], but we never moved into it.

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"We had an awakening one day that we don't want to raise our kids in an environment that's largely show business and built on whose father had a bigger opening weekend. It seemed fraught with peril. New York seemed like a better bet.

"There's much more variety in the people that they meet and the relationships they have [in New York]. It's much more real. They don't live in a bubble. And I know where my kids are all the time."

Fox, who appeared in the CBS drama The Good Wife, then added that he wants to raise his four children as "good people".

"We have a responsibility to make sure that they're good people, not destructive; that they're contributors who don't feel entitled," he said. "They're good kids. I can't imagine reading about them [in the tabloids]."